<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123545342714004586</id><updated>2011-07-08T09:43:48.692-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Plonk Guy's Blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>PlonkGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07549877055757101960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123545342714004586.post-4919589606641007558</id><published>2009-10-01T14:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T14:44:10.837-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gary Vaynerchuk just rated my wine!!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="288" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="437"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.viddler.com/player/e05a99de/" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed name="viddler" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.viddler.com/player/e05a99de/" allowscriptaccess="always" height="288" width="437"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://plonkwines.com/gary-vaynerchuk-just-rated-my-wine"&gt;plonk's posterous&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9123545342714004586-4919589606641007558?l=plonkguy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/feeds/4919589606641007558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/gary-vaynerchuk-just-rated-my-wine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/4919589606641007558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/4919589606641007558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/10/gary-vaynerchuk-just-rated-my-wine.html' title='Gary Vaynerchuk just rated my wine!!!!'/><author><name>PlonkGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07549877055757101960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123545342714004586.post-2869942615741710306</id><published>2009-04-28T18:45:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-28T18:45:20.464-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a go! Plonk will be teaming up with Wine Styles</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/plonk/LVOnaHoO4MUHNulgTdXEHGTAUwIwWgaceGZ4RKcqUyc24srLVF69iLb01qnj/NDC.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/plonk/Mz6Sgg3pYT7QdEdUrVnkjWH1NPZRQ7yfY8mpp52HpQL0uKEmBypFNGX1CtO1/NDC.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="460"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;  &lt;/font&gt;&lt;div&gt;Big news from Atlanta, GA as Plonk has been chosen to be a part of the &lt;a href="http://www.winestylesstore.com/" mce_href="http://www.winestylesstore.com/"&gt;Wine Styles&lt;/a&gt; team.&amp;nbsp; After 2 days of tasting with clients, management and a distributor, Plonk passed all tests and will soon be available in Georgia.&amp;nbsp; The second set of great news is that we will be working with a wonderful wine distributor - Atlanta Wholesale Wine which is a part of the &lt;a href="http://www.ndcweb.com/home1/" mce_href="http://www.ndcweb.com/home1/"&gt;National Distributing Company&lt;/a&gt; team.&amp;nbsp; This is a seasoned, professional business that is associated with two of my former employers - Block Distributing in Austin, Texas and Grand Vin in Denver, Colorado.&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;I cannot express how pleased and honored I am to have been chosen to be a part of the Wine Styles/AWW and NDC team.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;Big thanks to Michelle Foust for being such a diligent buyer for Wine Styles and to &lt;a href="http://linda.posterous.com/" mce_href="http://linda.posterous.com/"&gt;Linda Blakely (aka Wine Diva)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for the review on my blog that started the whole process!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://plonkwines.com/its-a-go-plonk-will-be-teaming-up-with-wine-s"&gt;plonk's posterous&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9123545342714004586-2869942615741710306?l=plonkguy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/feeds/2869942615741710306/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-go-plonk-will-be-teaming-up-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/2869942615741710306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/2869942615741710306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/04/it-go-plonk-will-be-teaming-up-with.html' title='It&amp;#39;s a go! Plonk will be teaming up with Wine Styles'/><author><name>PlonkGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07549877055757101960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9123545342714004586.post-4854675751256440717</id><published>2009-04-22T10:26:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-22T10:26:33.783-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Plonk is moving along with a little help from Social Media</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;I recently got a call from Michelle Foust who is a manager for &lt;a href="http://www.winestylesstore.com/" mce_href="http://www.winestylesstore.com/"&gt;Wine Styles&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; She told me that she had read a review by &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/people/gsXFVEaPU" mce_href="http://posterous.com/people/gsXFVEaPU"&gt;Linda Blakely (aka The Wine Diva)&lt;/a&gt; and was interested in trying Plonk and possibly bringing it in to her store.&amp;nbsp; All I could think was WOW! How lucky am I!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana" size="2"&gt;Michelle seems very passionate about finding unique wines and offering them to her clients.&amp;nbsp; She told me a story about spending several months tracking down a particular wine maker from Italy.&amp;nbsp; She eventually found him and is now carrying his wine.&amp;nbsp; Her clients can be proud of the work that she does for them.&amp;nbsp; Here's a &lt;a href="http://www.winestyles.net/impdates.asp?id=128423&amp;amp;page=1" mce_href="http://www.winestyles.net/impdates.asp?id=128423&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;list of upcoming events&lt;/a&gt; at her store&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Anyway, I sent the wine and they will be tasting it today.&amp;nbsp; Hope all goes well and that we will soon be in the Atlanta market.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Also, Michelle made me realize that I needed to get our site up so......... here it is:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.plonk.com/" mce_href="http://www.plonk.com"&gt;www.plonk.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Thanks Michelle and Thanks to Wine Styles&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/plonk/V4MPUTHHanYRTngO6t4StiwOsyTmyGSbwnFGRGelaXFc64JZ1BjOWNPGj1md/WineStyles.jpg'&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/plonk/Qv2qKnNMlxkPboEnbvZnwcyKZ2D5YlajuLvICSLGN4zPRqCDNmNfTmYV8oRI/WineStyles.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="420"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/plonk/LkGdCO34OEpxx3drrrX7NLNI73e3Et3jm21LQ9ZrIfeIb0ugFcMrpGz1a9OM/Michelle_Foust.jpg" width="440" height="303"&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href='http://plonkwines.com/plonk-is-moving-along-with-a-little-help-from'&gt;See and download the full gallery on posterous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-size: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;a href="http://posterous.com"&gt;Posted via email&lt;/a&gt;   from &lt;a href="http://plonkwines.com/plonk-is-moving-along-with-a-little-help-from"&gt;plonk's posterous&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/9123545342714004586-4854675751256440717?l=plonkguy.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/feeds/4854675751256440717/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/04/plonk-is-moving-along-with-little-help.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/4854675751256440717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/9123545342714004586/posts/default/4854675751256440717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://plonkguy.blogspot.com/2009/04/plonk-is-moving-along-with-little-help.html' title='Plonk is moving along with a little help from Social Media'/><author><name>PlonkGuy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07549877055757101960</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
